Lloyd Bryce

Lloyd Stephens Bryce was born in Flushing, New York on September 20, 1851. His father, Joseph Smith Bryce (1808–1901), graduated third in his class from the United States Military Academy in 1829, Robert E. Lee was second, and served as a Union Army Major in the Civil War, engaged in the defense of Washington, D.C.

Lloyd's sister was Clemence Smith Bryce, who married Nicholas Fish, the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Belgium, and was the mother of Hamilton Fish II. He was a nephew of John L. Stevens, U.S. Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii.

He attended Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees.[1] Bryce also studied at Columbia Law School.[2]

Bryce was an avid sports enthusiast, and wrote that sports were capable both of quelling revolutionary thought among the poor and promoting understanding between nations. He was a frequent participant in polo matches in Newport, Rhode Island[3] and Manhattan and fox hunts on Long Island.[4]

In 1879,[7] he married Edith Cooper (1854–1916),[8] the only child of New York City Mayor Edward Cooper,[9] and granddaughter of the famous industrialist Peter Cooper.[10][11] Together, they were the parents of:

• Edith Claire Bryce (1880–1960),[12] who married President of the New York Public Service Commission John Sergeant Cram (1851–1936)[13]
• Cornelia Elizabeth Bryce (1881–1960),[14] who married conservationist Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946), the first Chief of the United States Forest Service under Theodore Roosevelt, in 1914.[15][16]
• Peter Cooper Bryce (1889–1964),[17] who married Angelica Schuyler Brown (1890–1980), of the Brown banking family, in 1917.[18]

Bryce died in Mineola, New York, April 2, 1917, and was interred in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. The bulk of his estate, worth $1,665,061,[19] was left to his two daughters, with his son receiving all his paintings, including a portrait by Godfrey Kneller, books, engravings, and clothing.[20] His home at 1025 Fifth Avenue was left to his children in four equal shares, two to his son and one to each of his daughters.[20]

• United States Congress. "Lloyd Bryce (id: B000998)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Works by or about Lloyd Bryce at Internet Archive
• James Terry White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 1, 1898, page 252

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.